I didn't copy down my Nvidia video card's serial number before I sent
the documentation away for a rebate.  Is there any way I can access it
via software so I don't have to pull the card out of my machine?  It
isn't displayed in the System Information portion of the Nvidia ...

My CD rom is MITSU&MI CR-48XCTE and it does not read a disc when inserted.
The device manager and troubleshoot do not recognize a problem. (Drive F)
My DVD is IDE DVD-ROM16X This does read the disc, but I can not download
anything to the disc. It says I do not have permission to ...

I want to recover files from a full external HD that are not available to
Windows XP any more. The only software I have tried (Recover my files) will
take 5 days, and the PC won't stay running that long.  I would appreciate
any suggestions.

I've encountered a confusing set of messages when I boot my machine
with a new SATA HDD installed. I find that XP Pro wants to send it
through a wizard to initialize it and set it up as a dynamic disk.
Here is some relevant basic info on my machine from a Belarc Advisor

My system is running XP on an Athalon 64 processor with a DFI mobo. It is
still running fine, but currently only has one gig of RAM. I want to upgrade
the RAM but I am not sure which configuration will best be managed by XP.
Here are my choices:

My desktop PC(XPSP2) doesn't do anything when I push the "on" button. The
only way to get it starting is to shut-off  the mains connection for a while
(`~ 10 minutes), and after reconnecting I get a normal startup when I push
the "on" button.  Is this "repairable"?

I have a Dell Dimension 8200 with XP SP2
The problem I have is this: sometimes like on Yahoo or MSN when I
click on something and then click backspace it doesn't do it. I see it
cycling but then it just sits. I've noticed it does this on other

I've started to get the "QueryDosDevice Failed. Insufficient system
resources exist to complete the requested service" pop-up rather
consistantly.
Is there a way to find out which requested service is causing the problem?

Does anyone know how task manager monitors CPU
performance?
In the CPU usage area, what does a second "red" line
graph indicate? Whenever the red line ascends, the

I've posted my problem to a couple of support groups and so far I
haven't been able to solve my problem, at least not completely.
Recently, meaning a couple days ago I upgraded my PC's video card to a
Nvidia 9600GT series card from an ATI X1600.  I am running a fully up to

Has anyone experienced this fault on a CRT monitor - a 4 yr old LG
Studioworks.
Once or twice a session the display momentarily has a fit! The image dulls,
appears to zoom out of the screen and then contracts back to normal size and

  We want to develope a usb flash drive,just like a CD ROM,which contains
some software can autorun when being plugged.But we find a strange
phenomena:
  After insert our usb flash drive into a computer with a fresh

Tried to play music on my computer (Win XP SP2) but cannot seem to hear any
sound through my Microphone even though the Windows Media Player is playing
the music.
I have a sound card which is listed in the Device Mangager. I've also

Getting PCMCIA MTD-0002 installation applet on any card I try to install.
Researched and found solution to replace with this file version. This is
newer than the file supplied with XP Service Pack 2. Can't find on Microsoft
WebSite.

I am using a hitachi LCD-Flat display, intel- PXA255 processor with WINCE 5.0 running on it. I am getting a side effect in the display i.e  a very light projection of red color towards the right side of the icon till the end of screen. I had changed the RGB settings but no effect ...